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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

The world is changing around us fast, nothing new there. I for one cannot 
believe the number of changes in the last 30 years and there is no way I 
would try to predict what's coming down the road.
One thing I have noticed is that there are a number of people who are 
looking forward to a collapse of the world around us and they always seem 
to have all the answers. I saw that a lot in the y2k preps. Something else 
I saw in the y2k preps was an equal number of people who had all the 
answers and knew nothing was going to happen.
No one has a crystal ball that I know of, this author could be right. I 
hope not.

Rob
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At  5/14/2005 09:39 AM, you wrote:
> Here it is:
>
> After the oil is gone
> Say goodbye to your suburban house, yoke up that horse, and stand by to
> repel pirates! Author James Howard Kunstler talks about the dire world of
> his new book, "The Long Emergency."
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - -
> By Katharine Mieszkowski
> When will the doom begin? It already has. "There have been no significant
> discoveries of new oil since 2002," Kunstler says. And the Saudis have
> screwed up their super-giant Ghawar oil field, long a fossil-fuel font for
> the U.S. "They have damaged it by pumping enormous amounts of salt water
> into it; in fact, the field itself may be entering depletion," he says.

There is a LOT we don't know in this world, as an example--
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/crispin8.html
>>Oil Reserves Are Increasing
by George Crispin
Eugene Island is an underwater mountain located about 80 miles off the 
coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1973 oil was struck and 
off-shore platform Eugene 330 erected. The field began production at 15,000 
barrels a day, then gradually fell off, as is normal, to 4,000 barrels a 
day in 1989, Then came the surprise; it reversed itself and increased 
production to 13,000 barrels a day. Probable reserves have been increased 
to 400 million barrels from 60 million. The field appears to be filling 
from below and the crude coming up today is from a geological age different 
from the original crude, which leads to the speculation that the world has 
limitless supplies of petroleum. <<




> In Kunstler's world, a teenager will be better off learning how to yoke up a
> horse-drawn buggy than how to change the oil in a car. Woodshop will be more
> important than computer literacy. Among Kunstler's predictions: The South
> will devolve into agricultural feudalism and the Pacific Northwest will be
> beset by a plague of pirates from Asia. Forget about sleek hydrogen-powered
> cars coming to the rescue. For that matter, quit tilting your hopes toward
> wind power.

I would not rule out new technology just yet. The brain is the reason 
humans have ended up where we are and like I said earlier the number of 
changes in the last 30 years is simply mind boggling.